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Imaging Consulting Resource

The goal of the CTSA Imaging Consulting Resource is to facilitate access to both clinically established and novel imaging methods, both of which are becoming increasingly important in translational research. Because of its noninvasive nature and applicability across different organ systems and diseases, imaging is used in longitudinal clinical research studies to characterize biological processes and how they progress.

The Imaging Consulting Resource aims to integrate state-of-the-art clinical and novel imaging into translational research at Mayo Clinic. The consultation service has access to the resources of Mayo Clinic's Department of Radiology, which comprises 160 radiologists and physicists and has state-of-the-art instrumentation in all areas of clinical imaging. All the scanners in Mayo's clinical departments are available for use in clinical research studies.

Services and equipment

The service does not provide access to imaging equipment; rather, it serves Mayo Clinic investigators in an advisory capacity. The Imaging Consulting Resource can: